Call for Papers! Special Collection on 'New Trends in Organization Design'

In private as well as public organizations we have been seeing fast-changing organizational forms, a growing importance placed on ecosystems for competitive advantage, an emergence of platform organizations, an increase in hybrid organizations, and many different experiments with flat organizations without hierarchy.

The Journal welcomes submissions to a Special Collection devoted to addressing new trends and emerging themes in the field of organization design.

Topics could include, but are not limited to: • new organizational designs, organizational agility, and adaptation• the importance of digitization, artificial intelligence, and machine learning for organization design• multi-organizational collaboration and organizational performance

Deadline for submissions: 30 April 2019Learn more here, and download the full Call for Papers here!

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Volumes 1, 2, 3, and 4

SpringerOpen is proud to publish the Journal of Organization Design from Volume 5 onward. Previously it was published by the Organizational Design Community: Volumes 1, 2, 3, and 4 are available in full.

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Additional Calls for Papers

The editors invite submissions to the following Collections on topics of special interest.

When submitting your paper to any Special Collection, reply "Yes" when asked whether it's part of a "thematic series" and choose the appropriate title from the drop-down menu. ​​​​​​​

Aims and scope

The mission of the Journal of Organization Design (JOD) is to publish theoretical and empirical research on organization design. Organization design is an applied discipline based on the literature of the organization sciences. The relevant knowledge base is diverse, including concepts, theories, and research findings from fields such as economics, psychology, sociology, management, and information technology. Effective organization design requires both science and art, and the best theorists and practitioners have a deep understanding of how organizations work as well as how they can be redesigned and changed. JOD is eclectic in its interests, both in terms of topics and research methods. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, design thinking, sustainable designs, redesign and change, organizational agility and adaptation, multi-organizational collaboration, anticipating the future, strategic leadership, crisis management, and organizational performance. JOD is receptive to papers based on traditional research methods such as surveys and experiments but also encourages papers that are based on future-oriented approaches such as simulations, thought experiments, scenario development, and Delphi studies. JOD seeks to be relevant as well as rigorous. According to JOD's philosophy, rigor and relevance do not represent a trade-off. JOD wants to publish valid research that will be used by the designers and managers of organizations. The members of the editorial board share this philosophy and will favor papers that focus on significant organization design problems whose solutions can be understood and used by managers.